Gerulf von Kennemerland

Gerulf von Kennemerland , also Gerulf the Younger († 896 ) was Count in Central Friesland and ancestor of the Dutch Count House .

Life

He was probably a son of Gerulf the Elder .

He was a count in Kennemerland, possibly also in Friesland . In the year 882 the Kennermerland, which had previously been a fief of the Norman Rörik , was given to the Norman Gottfried , who was baptized.

Nevertheless, in the year 884 Gottfried undertook a raid on which he advanced to Duisburg , allied himself with Hugo von Lothringen , whose brother-in-law he was, and in 885 demanded through the Frisian counts, Gerulf and Gardulf, that the emperor should give him a number of chamber goods Resign Rhine if he is to remain loyal. In June 885 Gottfried met Duke Heinrich in the Betuwe near Herwen on the pretext of negotiations , but was murdered there with Gerulf's help.

In any case, Gerulf must have been an ardent supporter of the new King Arnulf during the revolution that overthrew Emperor Charlemagne in Eastern Franconia . This not only enfeoffed him in 898, perhaps also to bind him even more tightly, hereditary with a royal forest and a farm south of Haarlem on the then dry area of Haarlemmermeer as well as with other lands in Teisterbant and elsewhere, but his family appears then also conspicuously friends with the following kings, who were raised from the same action as Arnulf. Only in the short interim period, when it was doubtful whether Lorraine should fall to Eastern or Western Franconia, when two parties tore the country apart, does Gerulf's son, Dietrich I, seem to have taken advantage of it.

progeny

He had the following children:

• Dietrich I.
• Walger, known as Arnulf's nephew

literature

• Ernst Dümmler: History of the East Franconian Empire. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1865. Volume II, page 239, 463.
• Eduard Hlawitschka: Lotharingia and the empire on the threshold of German history. Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1968. Page 109.
• Hugo Jaekel: The Counts of Middle Friesland from the line of King Ratbods. Gotha 1895. page 87.
• Heinrich Leo: Twelve Books of Dutch Stories. Eduard Anton Verlag, Halle 1832. Pages 640–641.

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